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<div><h1 class="article-title">What are Aliases?</h1></div>
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    <p>The Alias service supports the mapping of alias strings to a target. This is useful when things like sites have a long, cryptic name (such as a GUID). </p>
<p>For example, a Sakai alias can be used instead of the site id when emailing to the site <strong>test@sakai.edu</strong> rather than <strong>6ade75f9-aeef-4338-80ae-62e391045975@sakai.edu</strong>.</p>
<p>It can also be used in place of the site id for access URLs, such as <strong>/access/content/group/test</strong> instead of <strong>/access/content/group/6ade75f9-aeef-4338-80ae-62e391045975</strong>.</p>
<p>The Aliases admin tool provides methods to get the target of aliases in the system, create new ones, edit them and delete them.</p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">To access this tool, select Aliases from the Tool Menu in the Administration Workspace.</h2>
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